Ships

Guests are gathered around a swimming pool aboard the cruise liner SS President Wilson.

From left to right, Rear Admiral Chester C. Wood, United States Navy, Commandant, Third Naval District, Mrs. Wood, and Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks, Commander Cruisers Atlantic, stand in the Captain's Cabin of the USS Wisconsin on the day she was decommissioned.

Zelda Parks sits on a bed in the cabin aboard the SS President Wilson.

The staff of Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks are seated at a table aboard the USS Iowa. From left: Raymond Allen, Robert W. Myers, Parker Folsom, Robert Walters, James Sidles, Stephen Stamos, Captain Lindsey Williamson. From right: Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks, Roger Allen, Jerry Bunch Jr., Emory Tiffany, Lieutenant William Knaebel, Lieutenant Brian McCrane, Edwin Weinberg.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks travels by highline towards the USS Salem. All others are unidentified.

An unknown cruise ship passes the SS President Wilson in the Pacific Ocean.

Zelda Parks, wife of Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks, right, sits next to an unknown man aboard the SS President Wilson as they traveled across the Pacific Ocean to Japan.

Zelda Parks sits in a chair holding flowers in the cabin aboard the SS President Wilson.

Zelda Parks poses for a photo while sitting in a lounge chair aboard the cruise liner SS President Wilson.

Unknown passengers are seated on a bed aboard the SS President Wilson as they traveled across the Pacific Ocean to Japan.